Ubuntu: What media (music and video) players are there? The Question: .
What media (music and video) players are there?
Please list one piece of software per answer, as per this http://
meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1872/how-to-run-the-software-recommendation-tag.
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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and
framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD,
VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Features:
* Simple, fast and powerful media player.
* Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
* Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX,
H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
* Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
* Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
* Can do media conversion and streaming.
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I was using it the other day to play back 3 720p videos simultaneously on a 1
1/2 year old HP notebook. Performance was flawless.
Very advanced customizations/settings.
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Separate window that includes playlist, file browser, external devices and
local network access, internet features (radios, postacasts, Freebox TV
channels for registered users)
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(Using skins reduces the easy access to some of these features.)
VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file
formats, including DVD-video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to
stream over computer network and to transcode multimedia files. (from http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player)
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It can use extensions, plugins and skins - to be downloaded from http://
addons.videolan.org/?xsection=home.
Among these, some that can find movie subtitles. (More answers on this: https:/
/askubuntu.com/a/267504/47206 and here.)
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